My sublessor is refusing my rent check because he wants $100 extra which I refuse to give, what’s my option?
I live with 4 roommates all of us paying month by month to a sublessor who is in a different house. I have been there 19 months paying $650. One of the roommates used to live in the smallest tiny room and he moved out. The three of us left came to an agreement with our sublessor to not have anyone else move in and just be the three of us but each pay $100 extra. Jan, Feb and March I paid $750. April 1st, one roommate moved his cousin into the small room for a month or two with the sublessor approval. So for April I gave a check for $650 for breaking the agreement because I don’t want to pay for someone else but he is refusing my check. Can he do anything?
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With a month to month agreement, one months notice required for any change in agreement, so the tenant who is playing at being a landlord needs to give you one months notice of changes including notice to leave and you need to give one months notice to leave....... you of course have this agreement in writing that while the room remains unoccupied you pay $100 extra, if so there is no issue, you just pay $100 less when the room is occupied
Do you have any paperwork with the sublessor?
If you don't have a time-specific lease, you need to give one full month's notice to terminate your residency, and pay to the end of that period.
He can't raise your rent without similarly providing one full month's written notice.
Of course he can. He can evict you. You owe him the other hundred bucks. Your little arrangement with the new guy for two months - it is up to the 5 of you to work it out with him. Get your $100 rent from him, or whatever it is you are all going to charge him for his stay. Your obligation to the landlord does not change just because you have a two month guest.
Tell him that by law, all parties to an agreement must agree in order to make any changes. He violated that by not getting your agreement to allow this new person in after all were agreed to increase the rent by $100 each in exchange for no one new coming in. Tell him that if he wants to sue you for eviction, he can do that, and you will argue your point in front of a judge, that he made a unilateral change to the agreement. Tell him that if he wants to refuse the $650 which was the agreed-upon rent with a fourth, that you will place the $650 into a separate bank account, and you will continue to do so every month until the court case is settled.
If you do that, make sure to not touch that separate money.
hopefully he cant do anything, maybe you should talk to a lawyer about all this
You are renting a room, not the full place.
Your room was $650
You agreed to make it $750 with stipulations (another tenant didn't move in)
If the stipulations were in writing, you would pay the agreement with the 4 tenants
If the stipulations are not in writing, you owe $750.
Your agreement is with the sublessor, and that's for $750 a month. Sop, you are breaching the agreement. He had nothing to do with your problem, but your rommate has
Maybe the roommate who brought a cousin in (or the cousin) should make up the difference to you and the other roommate, since he is making use of the room....